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Old 03-04-2015, 08:02 PM   #89 (permalink)
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I just feel like the implication is that people discussing the events and gaining a new consciousness of certain ideas like police brutality and institutional discrimination (even though these things are of course not new) isn't in any way significant.
Not what I meant in the slightest. I think that the significance of the event will highly fade in comparison to the civil rights movement, but in the meantime it is definitely significant, just not what I would call a movement.
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